Tag Archives: Judge Rossie D. Alston Jr.

In a case in which defendant offered witness testimony contrary to the teenage victim, who described an assault by defendant who was her hair stylist’s boyfriend, the jury alone was entitled to judge the victim’s credibility, and the Court of ...

On rehearing, a panel of the Virginia Court of Appeals holds that because the commonwealth did not prove that the quantity of fake crack cocaine defendant possessed – three small corner “baggies” worth about $20 each – was not inconsistent ...

The commonwealth did not need to prove the use of actual force in order to convict defendant of aggravated sexual battery through use of a victim’s mental incapacity, in violation of Va. Code § 18.2-67.3, for his act of molesting ...

Although police officers who stopped defendant’s car for a traffic violation observed a strong smell of marijuana coming from the car, and that he denied having the vehicle registration because the car belonged to his daughter’s mother, there nevertheless was ...

A woman who was “joking around” and flashed three 11- and 12-year-old boys who were family friends, while calling them babies, showed poor judgment, but she did not exhibit sexual intent when she raised her shirt to expose her breasts, ...

A woman who yelled at a postal mail carrier demanding delivery of her mail, and who grabbed the mail carrier’s shoulder and pulled her hair to turn her around, demonstrated sufficient intent to inflict fear of bodily harm and to ...

Where the driver of a vehicle testified that defendant, who was driving another car and shot into her car, did not shoot into her car until after her passenger had first shot at defendant, after having previously shot and injured ...

Although a contractor twice authorized defendant, his employee, to use his business credit card to make specific purchases, the contractor identified numerous other personal purchases made by defendant with the card, totaling $5,600, on other occasions captured on Home Depot’s ...

A hospice nurse injured in a work-related auto accident wins costs of medical treatment in this decision from the Court of Appeals. Claimant testified that she never, before the work accident, had the type of pain in her right hip ...